ISO 27018:2019
Information security policies – ISO 27018:2019

ISO 27018:2019 5.1.1: Policies for information security

What does 5.1.1 require?

Extends ISO/IEC 27002:2013 5.1.1. The processor's security policies gain a statement that it supports, and is committed to, complying with the PII protection law that applies to it and with the terms agreed in each customer contract. Those contracts split responsibilities plainly among the processor, its sub-contractors and the customer, and the split turns on the kind of service: application-layer controls, for instance, may be the processor's under a SaaS offering but the customer's when it builds its own applications on PaaS or IaaS. Other information: some jurisdictions bind the processor directly by PII law while others bind only the controller; in both cases the customer contract is what obliges the processor to support compliance, and it may ask for independently audited compliance the customer accepts, for example by implementing the controls of this document and ISO/IEC 27002.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 3 controls across 3 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.1 Policies for information security

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.2 Information security policies

ISO/IEC 27011:2024 · 1 control

  • 27011-5.1 Policies for Information Security in Telecoms

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